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Seeing our PhD holders choose menial jobs over research and innovation highlights a flaw in our educational policy.
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Pension wars and quota protests: The manufactured divide
Polarisation, rife with mutual fear and rage, is on the rise. Something dark and sinister is occurring.
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Breaking chains through whistleblowing
Why does it matter for us when a foreign individual is free after such a long time?
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A monologue on the beasts among us
As I stand before the heap of fresh meat, my thoughts turn to the slain politician who was hacked to death
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P for Private, P for PhD
The UGC's decision to allow private universities to offer PhD programmes is a timely move.
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Our love-hate relationship with university rankings
A prestigious ranking system naming Dhaka University as the top university in Bangladesh makes us revisit that love-hate stance.
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Spare us the hypocrisy
Moral policing by the West, when its own hypocrisy comes out through its actions controvening international law, one cannot help feeling bemused.
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Why are highly educated people choosing blue-collar jobs abroad?
Seeing our PhD holders choose menial jobs over research and innovation highlights a flaw in our educational policy.
July 5, 2024
Pension wars and quota protests: The manufactured divide
Polarisation, rife with mutual fear and rage, is on the rise. Something dark and sinister is occurring.
June 29, 2024
Breaking chains through whistleblowing
Why does it matter for us when a foreign individual is free after such a long time?
June 27, 2024
‘Begum’s Blunder’ shines in Wilde splendour
Begum’s Blunder is a clever adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan. The play transports the Victorian setting to the imaginary Behrampur, the heyday of the Nawabs in India. With Naila Azad Nupur’s direction, and Sadaf Saaz working her behind-the-scenes magic as the producer, the production by Kaleidoscope projects lights on the prism of Wilde’s 1892 play to find their contemporary refractions and reflections in colonial India.
June 22, 2024
A monologue on the beasts among us
As I stand before the heap of fresh meat, my thoughts turn to the slain politician who was hacked to death
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P for Private, P for PhD
The UGC's decision to allow private universities to offer PhD programmes is a timely move.
June 8, 2024
Our love-hate relationship with university rankings
A prestigious ranking system naming Dhaka University as the top university in Bangladesh makes us revisit that love-hate stance.
June 2, 2024
Spare us the hypocrisy
Moral policing by the West, when its own hypocrisy comes out through its actions controvening international law, one cannot help feeling bemused.
May 25, 2024
Dhaka’s transport turmoil
Dhaka is the world's rickshaw capital
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The aurora enigma: Science and myths
The interplay between myths and scientific explanations of auroras illustrates human being’s capacity to find meaning in the natural world.
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